Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons
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- Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
- Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
- Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
- If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
- Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.